January 26, 2009

Literary Reading Series features poet in February

Craig Arnold
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Arnold will present a poetry reading at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program.

He is the author of the poetry collections, "Made Flesh," which was a finalist for the New Criterion Prize and the Pitt Poetry Prize. His other collection, "Shells," was selected by W.S. Merwin as the 1998 volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

Arnold's poems have appeared in "Best American Poetry" in 1998, 2004 and 2006, as well as in the journals "Poetry," "The New Republic," "Paris Review," "Yale Review" and "Poetry Northwest." He has received the Rome Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship.

Arnold teaches at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo., and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Colombia and a U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship.

Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu

Source: Daniel Tyx, Literary Reading Series coordinator, (765) 742-6030, dtyx@purdue.edu

Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu

Note to Journalists: Journalists interested in an interview with Craig Arnold can contact Daniel Tyx, Literary Reading Series coordinator, (765) 742-6030, dtyx@purdue.edu

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